We're living in a time when global health as well as individual health are part of everyday

conversations more than they've ever been in my lifetime.

People are thinking about getting a checkup. They're thinking about

supplementation, boosting their immune system, figuring out if they're

immunocompromised. Trying to figure out what immunocompromise even means.

It's an interesting time.

And you know, I have an on-off experience with allopathic medicine.

Like a lot of Americans, I was uninsured for a long time.

I left the corporate world in my early 20s and I spent about eight years with no insurance.

As an American, if you don't have a job job, you can't really get insured unless you pay quite a bit of money a month and as a traveling bum yoga teacher that was kind of

impossible so like a lot of people I just sort of hoped for the best and and I got

lucky I didn't really get sick didn't really take antibiotics didn't really go to the doctor for anything

other than like a skin infection from a coral reef nick on my toe and some other silly

things and you know all things being, I was just really quite fortunate.

In my 30s when I finally got insured again, I started being more proactive and I started going

back to the doctor, but in a different kind of way, I started going to the doctor with my desired outcome planned in advance and

it's kind of my new protocol for going to see any medical professional is know your outcome in advance.

Know what you'd like to learn, know what you'd like to come away with, whether that's a prescription

for a maxisylen for a sinus infection, whether that is a check of your body for melanoma, whether that's, whatever

it is you're looking for, it's much better if you go in with the desired outcome because

our health care system is actually a sick care

system it's mostly reactive and most people like me most of my life you go to the

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